Car park is approved
A MILL owner has come under fire for the noise created at Dock Ing Mills.
John Townend was at the Heavy Woollen planning sub-committee meeting on Thursday to speak about a planning application to use an old patch of land in Bradford Road as a car park.
But he was met by residents of nearby Amber Street and Diamond Street in Carlinghow, who say their lives have been made a nightmare by the mill, which is used as an industrial and business site.
Chris Green said he and his neighbours were having to live with HGVs loading and unloading at the site for ‘95 per cent of working hours’.
He said: “We are putting up with full noise pollution; shouting by staff from the mill, noise from mill machinery and vehicles coming in and out.” Mr Townend said the land was ‘lying there and doing nothing’. He said it was an untidy area that was needed for off-road parking at the mill.
Members of the planning sub-committee said they were concerned about the noise at the factory. They referred the application back to planning officers for approval subject to additional conditions restricting noise and working hours.
Chairman Coun Paul Kane (Lab, Dewsbury East) said: “This is a working unit, and we don’t want to see people unemployed because of the conditions we impose.
“But we don’t want it to be creating this noise.”
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